Lovely Lucky nearly became a victim of a bloody ring of death but escaped an attempted dognapping

Jessica Simpson and Lucky who is being hailed a hero after fighting off two men who tried to steal him from his South Caringbah home. Picture: Craig GreenhillSource:News Corp Australia

EVERY time the Simpson family call their dog, they’re reminded how lucky he is.

A placid staffordshire bull terrier, Lucky narrowly escaped the horrors of an illegal dog fighting ring — where he would have been forced to battle to the death — after an attempted dognapping at the family’s Caringbah South home.

Jason Simpson said thieves struck their house about 3pm while he was at work, during a 15-minute window when wife Rhonda was picking up their 12-year-old son Caleb from school.

“There’s no doubt they were after Lucky.

They walked past three iPads and two laptops to get to him,” Mr Simpson said. “They used a knife to cut through the flyscreen on one of the upstairs windows and then came down to the loungeroom, where Lucky was secured.”

But the hoodlums got more than they bargained for when they tried to unclip the four-year-old’s leash.

“When they reached down to his short leash to nab him, they’ve realised he wasn’t going to let himself get taken,” Mr Simpson said.

“Anyone can come through our front door and they are fine. Lucky has always accepted everyone we have had over. But if someone breaks in through an upstairs window, then God help them.”

Lucky put up such a resilient fight the family feared he had been badly hurt when they arrived home to find him covered in blood and cowering in the loungeroom.

“He was shaking and scared and I thought he was bleeding to death, so I rushed him up to the vet. But the vet said it wasn’t Lucky’s blood.

“Later, at home, I realised two of my beach towels were missing, which the intruder must have used to stem their blood flow.”

He said police told him Lucky would have fetched up to $3000 in cruel dog fighting rings, where American staffordshires are popular breeds, alongside pitbulls.

“Lucky is an English Staffordshire terrier, which is a purebred, and they often get confused with pitbulls and American staffys, which are crossbreeds,” Mr Simpson said. “But they’re not like those dogs. They’d never hurt a child and they love your family unconditionally.

“In this case, though, Lucky has been smart enough to recognise an intruder and save his own life.”

He didn’t escape scot free. Mr Simpson said Lucky was so shaken by the ordeal he still suffered nightmares and insisted on sleeping in their 16-year-old daughter Jessica’s room each night.